Poor Man’s Sandwich

So, I was eating a peanut butter and onion sandwich and I saw this recipe, it looked good and I wanted a midnight snack, so I figured what the hey! Well I only had spicy dill pickles and no mayo so I used spicy mustard instead. I even threw on a slice of cheese and a garlic olive!! Well it wasnt great, I gobbled it down. I may try again with mayo and sweet pickles. Had a friend that used to make an after school sandwich that consisted of mayo, cheese, and chocolate chips on white bread. It wasnt too bad actually

I actually just like the peanut butter and pickle. It sounds so insane but tastes so incredible! I never would’ve tried this but for having forgotten my lunch 40 years ago. A friend offered me half of her sandwich and I reluctantly tried it. It was so good, when I got home I made several of these to quench my hunger for them, and I was super skinny then. I’ll try the full Monty soon.

I’ve made this a lot, sometimes I’ll omit the dill and use bread and butter pickles. The trick is thinly slice onion and well drained pickles, sometimes I’ll throw a slice of cheese instead of pickles

I used toasted Ezekiel bread, almond butter, plant-based Mayo, and fermented pickles along with a red onion and it turned out to be amazing!!! I would recommend this recipe along with one of my own: toasted Ezekiel bread, coarsely chopped cabbage, and almond butter. It is very crunchy and has a deliciously Asian flavor!

Not strange at all. My standby favorite except I use mustard instead of mayo. Makes a perfect picnic sandwich or tailgate sandwiches for us vegetarians.

I agree with one of the other reviews. The sugar in the peanut butter really came out. It made it sickening. If I ever try it again, I will use peanut butter with no added sugar. This way it would be really savory. I get a hankering every 2-3 years for an onion and mayonnaise sandwich with a little salt and my mother liked peanut butter and onion sandwiches. Because of this I had to try The Poor Man’s Sandwich. It was not earth shatteringly good, but it wasn’t THAT bad, either.

Oh how funny, My cousin pointed me to this. My grandmother lived in the great depression and I thought she had invented this sandwich herself. Her has more stuff in it. I consisted of white bread toasted, sweet pickles, bananas, red onion, peanut butter, mayo. It sounds disgusting, but it actually is really good.

Satisfying! Laid down equal amounts P-butter, then onions, then pickle and mayo on toasted fresh sourdough, and I liked it. Trying bread and butter pickles next time.

I love peanut butter and dill pickle sandwiches – always have – and they’re great! But the addition of mayonnaise didn’t add anything and even made it a little less appetizing to me.

For me, it was neither as gross as it initially sounded (I did it out of curiosity) nor as amazing as some of the comments made it out to be. I’ll stick to PB&J

Our son Brett used to make these for school lunches when he was a little kid. His brother and sister would laugh at it, but he knew he liked it. He only had three ingredients: bread, peanut butter, and pickles.

This is an old depression era staple..it was super cheap to get the ingredients .. the peanut butter is a different spin..

Not bad but slice avocado and tomato makes it better.

Actually, I remember this sandwich. It used to be the only way that my father would eat peanut butter, with the exception that he also added sliced banana, and salt and pepper. I tried it once, but found that I was happier with a simple peanut butter sandwich. NOTE: the reason for it being called a “Poor Man’s Sandwich”, was because even during the depression, peanut butter and dill pickles were cheap enough for the poorest person to get their hands on, especially with home grown and canned dill pickles.

I haven’t tried it yet, but it reminds me of the sandwiches my dad used to eat. He liked peanut butter a lot, and sometimes he would put onion on his peanut butter sandwich with a little salt and pepper. The addition of pickle and mayo sounds interesting. I can’t wait to try it.

When I read the email, I immediately hit upon 2 favorite ingredients and knew I had to try it. Not disappointed but not overly impressed. Allow me to share a combination I LOVE and for one I am continuously scorned. Peanut butter on one slice of white bread, mayo on the other, a slice of beef bologna on the mayo side, and a slice of American cheese atop the p-nut butter. Slam it together and enjoy with an ICE COLD Coca Cola! MMmmm,good!

This sandwich sounded weird enough to intrigue me. I did not use measurements, just eye-balled the mayo and pb. Instead of spreading mayo on one slice of bread and pb on the other, I mixed the two together. Sliced up one dill pickle and very thin sliced onion. I like it! I will make this again.

My parents grew up in the Depression and they called this a Depression sandwich because the ingredients were inexpensive and often on hand. Their version is PB, mayonnaise and pickles or lettuce. I prefer the lettuce.

I grew up eating peanut butter, dill pickle, and Mayo sandwiches. Just never thought to add onion. Which onion type works the best?

Weird combination of ingredients but it works. Very good sandwich.

I’ve been making something similar for 60+ years. Peanut butter, butter chip pickles and American cheese on sliced bread. My father made these for us little kids as a snack on saltine crackers.